dear all,
below pls find brief information about forthcoming
conference:
'queering central and eastern europe. national features of
sexual identities'.
11.04.2008, ucl ssees, london.
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Queering Central and Eastern Europe: National features of
sexual identities.
A day-conference at the School of Slavonic and East European
Studies, UCL, Friday, 11 April 2008
http://queering-cee.blogspot.com
Sexualities, as keys to identity and as part of the public
language of the nation, are a controversial feature of
post-communist transition in Central and Eastern Europe.
Radical political changes have led to the emergence of new
social actors, such as the LGBT (lesbian, gay, bisexual and
transgender) movement, the airing of new public discourses
surrounding sexuality, as well as the eruption of new
social conflicts and divisions.
This day-conference devoted to the study of non-normative
(or queer) sexualities in Central-Eastern Europe is a
forum to reflect on the diversity of issues and approaches
in this new research area. The scarcity of scholarly work
concentrating on this region, in queer theory, in studies
of gay and lesbian experience in the past and present, and
in the sexual politics of the marginalised, is a
significant gap. Indeed the emergence of sexualities
studies for Central-Eastern Europe challenges canonical
theoretical and interpretive frameworks grounded in North
American and Western European contexts.
Queering Central and Eastern Europe: National features of
sexual identities adopts an interdisciplinary approach,
bringing together scholars in the social sciences, history,
Slavic and other area studies, as well as activists from
LGBT communities, to examine the intersection of gender and
nation as formative concepts for sexualities. How, for
example, did the emergence of revised national identities
after 1989 overlap with new conceptions of non-normative
gender and sexuality? What were the local dimensions of the
lesbian and gay question, and why did they emerge? How did
queer sexualities in this region evolve historically, and
what influence does that historical legacy impart today?
What is unique about Central and Eastern European sexual
identities, when compared within the region and with
Western and other non-Western formations?
REPRESENTATIONS
Djurdja Knezevic (Croatia): Nationalism, war, women, and men
in Croatia.
Anna Gruszczynska (Aston, Birmingham): Education,
Provocation or Inspiration? Exploring Meanings of LGBT
Marches and Pride Parades in Poland.
Francesca Stella (Glasgow):
they approached them and
asked, are you tema?: Lesbian sexuality, visibility and
everyday space in Ulianovsk, Russian Federation.
HISTORIES
Adi Kuntsman (Lancaster): Beyond the Borders of the Human:
Same-sex Relations in the Gulag Memoirs.
Mark Cornwall (Southampton): City of Vice and Victims:
Pragues Queer Space 1939-1945.
Dan Healey (Swansea): Hinterland as Sexualised Space: Sodomy
and Homosociability in Leningrad Province in the 1950s.
EAST/WEST
Nicola Mai (London Metropolitan): Minor mobilities: the life
trajectories of Albanian and Romanian young men migrating
and selling sex.
Robert Kulpa (UCL SSEES): Queer Nation, or Why should we
study nationalism with queer theories.
Joana Mizielińska (Warsaw University): Politics of
decency and the limits of queer representation in Poland.
FOR DETAILS PLS VISIT:
HTTP://QUEERING-CEE.BLOGSPOT.COM
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